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A while ago some of you guys wanted to know how a network audit was performed or how my colleague and I tackled this for a subdivision from a big firm here in Belgium.
Well as I have been quite busy with this and other things I finally managed to write something down, albeit being a bit crude it might be considered as a tutorial, but being unsure of this I let you guys be the judge.
Here it goes:
By demand of a big firm, we executed a network audit of specific vlans in an existing LAN in one of their subdivisions. This check up gave an overview of the critical components and an idea of the bandwidth utilization. The performance of the checked vlans was analyzed in detail and gave an idea of the data flow, errors and load on the switch ports.
Alternatives or improvements would be represented to improve the entire performance of the monitored subnets. The scope of the audit didnt include a total look at the complete network and the Wide-area-network (WAN)-performance.
To have a clear view about the hierarchical view of the network topology, we redrew the network layout in Visio and added it to the final report.
The LAN network of this subdivision is set up with different types of CISCO switches; in the core CISCO 6009 & CISCO 6006 chassis connected with a CISCO 35xx and 1924 in the access layer.
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The 9-slot Catalyst 6006 & 6009 chassis: delivers high-performance, multilayer switching solutions for enterprise and service provider networks. Backplane up to 32 Gbps.
WS-X6K-SUP1A-2GE: the Supervisor 1A offers layers 3-7 services via two daughter cards, the Policy Feature Card (PFC) and Multilayer Switch Feature Card (MSFC). The PFC offers enhanced services like server switching and QoS, while the Multilayer Switch Feature Card (MSFC) provides multiprotocol routing. Supervisor 1A provides enhanced performance and support for a broad range of services.
WS-6148-RJ-45/WS6348-RJ-45: 48-port 10/100 module, field upgradeable to Cisco Inline Power or IEEE 802.3af, RJ-45. Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series 48-Port 10/100 RJ-45 Classic Interface Module; upgradeable to support Cisco Prestandard PoE Daughter Card or to IEEE 802.3af PoE daughter card.
WS-6408A-GBIC: The Catalyst 6500 8-port Fabric-enabled GBIC-based Gigabit Ethernet Module, providing integrated Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF), is designed for high-density Gigabit core aggregation. Features: Interface: 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX/LH, 1000BASE-ZX
The Catalyst 3548/3524: Is a member of the Catalyst 2950 Series Ethernet Switches and is a fixed-configuration, stackable switch that provides wire-speed Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for midsized networks and access edge.
The Catalyst 1924F: Provides 24 10BaseT ports and two 100BaseFX ports in a compact, single rack unit chassis.
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This just to give you an overview of the type of network devices present in this firm.
After this we made an analysis of the vlans with all the details.
In the LAN network of the subdivision several vlans were in use. So to perform this audit, we chose to use a portable with analyze software installed (Fluke Networks Optiview), this was then placed in vlan1, this would then gather all info from the devices active in that vlan.
A second portable was placed in another vlan (vlan2) doing the same thing.
This would sum up the following:
IP Subnets :
10.0.x.x/255.255.255.x (1 device); 10.101.x.x/255.255.255. x (1 device);
10.101.x.x/255.255.255.x (1 device);
10.101.x.x/255.255.255.x (+/- 2 devices); 10.101.x.x/255.255.255.x (1 device);
IPX Networks : None detected
NetBIOS Domains : COMMON (273 hosts); XXX (2 servers); XXX (1 host); XXX (5 hosts, 2 servers); XXX(2 hosts); WORKGROUP (2 hosts, 3 printers); WORKSTATIONS (2 servers)
VLAN1 : Hosts detected : +/- 329
Printers detected : +/- 44
Servers : +/-13
Hosts detected : 2
Printers detected : 1
Access Points : 1
Servers : 2
...and so on.
Next we gave them an overview of the active servers and services on their network.
We would sum up the servers by name (if possible) or otherwise by IP-address , along with the active services on these servers (like: DHCP , DNS , print server , etc ).
(To their surprise though there was a server they forgot about hmmm strange , what you say you forgot about that server )
That done we could get to the neat stuff the network performance measurements.
To perform this network performance measurement we used the Fluke Optiview Console in the specific vlans of the LAN. This tool gives an overview of the utilization, broadcast, collisions and errors.
Errors like: Interface error rate exceeded error threshold, Interface utilization exceeded warning/error threshold and Key device not responding needed to be analyzed in depth.
In the problem log of the software we used there were also other items like: Only device in NetBIOS domain, New device on the network, NetBIOS name change or IP address changed these could be important in some areas of the network.
The most frequent errors were:
- Interface Error rate Exceeded Error Threshold
- Interface Utilization Exceeded Error Threshold
- Key device not responding
- Overlapped subnet mask
- Router interface has come up/ has gone down
- And to a lesser extent: Duplicate IP address
To elaborate some more about these errors:
- Interface Error rate Exceeded Error Threshold:
This error indicated that, on the device associated with this error, the error rate on the interface had exceeded the globally set threshold (1% was the default) or that it was greater than the individual-interface threshold for more than 2 minutes.
By default, these types of errors that are counted as errored traffic include CRC (Frame Check Sequence) errors, misaligned errors, Fragment errors, Short Frame errors and Jabber Frame errors. Symptoms were; slow network performance due to lost packets and frame retransmissions.
A bit more info about the above mentioned and other errors:
In harmony with the normal Ethernet characteristics and in normal circumstances, collisions and errors are proportional to the amount of the load of the considered ports. Related to the Ethernet Protocol, especially in a shared environment, the number of collisions and errors- will increase as the load of the medium increases.
So if the average load maintains below 40%, the average collisions under 5% and errors not appear or at least not reflect an average above 1% than these values are considered as good directives.
If we detected errors on ports, without an exceptional high load, we assumed it was most likely related to the transmission medium (from NIC to NIC) and had to be resolved at once. In case the errors went together with a very high load on these ports, we went on to examine it more in depth.
This is because broadcast ratio has no direct link to a specific port, because a broadcast is send to all ports of the broadcast domain. The broadcast ratio will raise as more servers, workstations and different networking protocols are added in the network.
So we gave them a top 10 of utilization, broadcast ratio, collision ratio and error ratio with the report and the complete audit reports as an annex for them to look through and solve the other minor errors by themselves.
- Interface Utilization Exceeded Error/Warning Threshold
This error indicated that, on the device associated with this warning, the utilization on the interface had exceeded the globally set error threshold (80% was the default) for more than 2 minutes. There were a lot of interfaces with this error, indicating that their LAN was under heavy load and needed urgent updating.
- Key device not responding
This error indicated that the Agent was not able to communicate with the associated device after repeated tries. To monitor the status of the network and its devices, the Network Inspector application checked basic communication with key devices approximately every 2 minutes. Key devices were determined automatically by the application when it detected that the device offered an important service to the network.
Therefore all servers, routers and switches were considered key devices.
- Overlapped subnet mask
This indicated that the configured subnet mask was most likely not the best choice for that specific device. This could be caused by incorrect configuration of the devices subnet mask.
Crudely stated, in IP networking, devices must have some information about which devices are in the local network, and how to reach remote devices. The subnet mask allows a device to quickly determine if it needs to send a packet of information to the router for delivery or try to reach a device directly. When the subnet mask is wrong, this decision cannot be made correctly.
The subnet mask separates the IP address into two parts: network and host. The subnet mask uses "1"s to indicate the network portion and "0"s to indicate the host portion. For example, a subnet mask of 255.255.192.0 is 11111111.11111111.11000000.00000000. (Most of you already know this but I thought I just add it for reference sense or for those that didnt already know).
In the situation where a device reported to have an overlapped subnet mask, the OptiView Console application determined that there were other devices on the network reporting a different subnet, on which this device would fit, and it then determined that the other subnet probably would be a better choice.( just stating the obvious)
For example, the device may be reporting a subnet mask of "255.255.0.0" while many other devices on the network are reporting a subnet mask of "255.255.255.0" and this device would fit into the same subnet if it used that mask.
As this different subnetmasks can interfere with normal network traffic these values were adjusted afterwards, one such device was a router which off course accounted for some of the network problems, like double bandwidth needs for a conversation or not being able to reach a certain resource.
The last item: Duplicate IP address was to be found a few times during the audit of the network, as this can cause corrupt ARP caches in routers when it occurs frequently we thought to mention it to the costumer so he could take a look at why this was happening.
One other thing we found was that some switches had uptimes as high as 375 days so it was safe to say that some, if not all switches, didnt receive an update or a much needed reboot in some time.
So in conclusion if we look at the information collected by the Fluke Optiview Console we can conclude following:
- On several interfaces the Utilization thresholds were exceeded especially on the access switches. The exceeded thresholds were noted mostly during working hours, from early in the morning until about 10 oclock and around noon until approximately 16Hr.
In vlan1 for example, there were two interfaces on a certain device that indicated high load during many hours. This wasnt abnormal though, because it was the WAN-network link which is also monitored and shaped by a Packeteer Packetshaper. Just to show you that sometimes high loads dont necessary mean problems.
- In different locations and on different moments, devices did not respond to an IP ping request. This meant a key device (server, router, switch) had no IP connectivity for a -short- period of time. This could not be tolerated from a key device and had to be further analyzed.
- On one device Router interface going down was seen many times. This indicated that there was no communication possible through the specific interface which offcourse needed immediate attention and was reported to the IT-departement.
- Furthermore there were al lot of other problems found on the network, like a rogue dial-in server which was active in one of the vlans
Finally when we took a look at the performance in the different vlans and the connections from the access layer to the core, there was sufficient bandwidth available.
It was particularly the access ports that were suffering from high peaks.
The configuration of the switches needed to be cleaned up; for example there were a lot of differences between the configurations on the core switches so after the completion of the audit we adjusted them until they were equal.
After the audit we presented everything we found out in a nice big report with lots of charts and numbers and talked it over , and also gave advice on where to improve or adjust certain things...some things we immediately adjusted after the audit as these were key points in their infrastructure , other things twere adjusted or adapted by the IT-departement of the firm.
For now this is it It is a lot to read maybe but I hope some of you can use the information provided , if you can add some tips , alterations or improvements, dont hesitate to drop me a message, as many here I to learn every day.
Also please excuse any language or spelling errors, I tried my best to avoid them.

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The New England Patriots have announced several coaching changes. Defensive line coach Pepper Johnson will now be the linebackers coach, linebackers coach Patrick Graham has been named the defensive line coach, defensive assistant Brian Flores has been named safeties coach, defensive assistant Josh Boyer has been named cornerbacks coach and offensive assistant George Godsey has been named tight ends coach.
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New England Patriots assistant coach Josh Boyer is expected to be the cornerbacks coach next season, reports Mike Reiss, of ESPNBoston.com.
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Dialect & Regionalism Today and in Twain's Time
Lesson 4 of 6
Objective: SWBAT analyze the use of satire, humor, and dialect using Mark Twain's "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and a variety of informational texts and charts to gather background information for a narrative writing application.
Big Idea: Now today we're goin' to learn about this'yer di-lect with Mark Twain 'fore we LIVE that di-lect with a narrative writin' activity.
This lesson falls near the end of our study on Realism, but just at the beginning of our investigation of Mark Twain's literature as a model for later American literature. Last class period students were given notes about relevant literary terms related to humor and satire, and we constructed group examples of these elements in action. They were also given links to digital materials to further explore their own dialect in relation to other American dialects and to investigate societal attitudes associated with varying dialects. Students should arrive today with the conceptual understanding of dialect to more deeply understand Twain's literature.
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To start off today's lesson, students will use their reflections from last class period's homework to first share their ideas with their assigned small groups to compare and contrast their reactions to the dialect links. While discussing this information with their groups, they should focus on what specific articles and ideas they were most interested in and found most helpful to their understanding of what dialect is on a conceptual level.
After students have had two minutes to discuss their reactions, the whole class will come together to share their findings, reactions, and evaluation of the linked material. This process should only take a few minutes, but it will be vital for warming up for today's interaction with Twain's text and generating student engagement with the focus on language use, which is often difficult. Many times students are willing to engage in discussions about larger ideas presented in text, but they are hesitant or resistant to actually evaluating the language. Basing our discussion here on the function of language sets the tone for our entire day discussing this topic.
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Building Knowledge
Once we have discussed student reflections, we will move on to applying our knowledge of dialect and Twain's use of humor (discussed last class period) to "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Since Twain employs phonetic spellings and regionalisms to his text, I have found in years past that students are often hesitant to engage in reading the text aloud (despite that being the only way to truly hear the language use in all its glory!). To counter this and allow students to comfortably evaluate his use of language and humor, I have opted to play students a Librivox recording of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (14:06) that I feel does the best job of using dramatic reading while staying true to the text. Instead of just listening to the text and retroactively analyzing it, however, we will follow the procedure outlined below.
- Students will work with their pre-assigned groups of three, as designated by the seating chart created utilizing data from student learning preferences surveys to match similar types of learners, to collect evidence and analyze one of these specific textual features:
- incongruity
- hyperbole
- comic use of language
- satire
- social commentary
- human foibles
- regional dialect
- theme
- objective summary using sequence of events
- story structure as it contributes to humor & effectiveness
- Students will be allowed to choose their feature for analysis, though I will give preference to my lower reading groups to select the topic they are most comfortable with first.
- After choosing a feature for analysis, students will use individual Google Docs (the "Individual Jumping Frog Textual Analysis Activity" in the resources section) to track specific instances of their feature in the text. The goal will be to create three individual lists of evidence per group, which will ultimately be synthesized into one overall analysis using the strongest evidence from each student.
- I will answer any questions groups have about the procedure and expectations before having students pull up their textual copy of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and playing the Librivox recording of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (14:06).
- While students listen, I will circulate throughout the room to answer any questions and help students if I see them struggling.
- After the recording concludes, students will have about 15 minutes to work with their groups to complete and submit the "Group Jumping Frog Textual Analysis Activity" providing an analysis and evidence of their topic. They will submit this document the the Twain Textual Analysis Group Submission Google Form. During this time, students will be required to use group conflict management skills to ensure the productive discussion, selection, and completion of information for this assignment.
- If students struggle with incorporating quotes into their analyses, I will encourage them to view the "Integrating 'Quotes' in Plain English" YouTube video by E. Petra.
- Once students are done with their collaborative document, they will briefly present their analysis to their peers.
- If students have missed any major points of the story or language use, I will supplement their discussion with questioning to clarify those points.
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As a final collaborative activity looking at language and dialects and their power, students will have the opportunity to evaluate an informational text of their choice to further examine an idea about dialect, the evolution of language, and the relationship between language and society in America. In order to complete this activity, students will follow the procedure outlined below.
- Student groups will select one of the articles (all from the "Do You Speak American?" project with PBS) from the proceeding list to for their study, then cite the article using the OWL at Purdue's resource.
- What is 'Correct' Language? (Prescriptivism)
- Crossing Over: Language Crossing—Borrowing Identity
- Language Myth #17 on Language Prejudice
- Sociolinguistics Basics
- Language as a Contribution to Social Identity
- Language in Its Social Setting
- The Truth About Change in Language
- Are Dialects Fading?
- Steel Town Speak of Pittsburgh
- Gatekeeping the Language
- Global American: Born in the USA
- The Power of Slang
- World Wide Web of Words
- Technology Spotlight: Machine Voices
- Once cited, students will determine a main idea question that will guide their reading purpose as they evaluate the text and note it in the Article Analysis Document.
- Then, students will read the article, collecting evidence and noting it in their collaborative document to answer their initial question.
- When reading and evidence collection is complete, student groups will rework the evidence into a question and answer post on Padlet in the English Dialect & Language Discussion Board specific to each class using their group-generated question, synthesized evidence from the article, and citation. Here is an example of the B2 Padlet set up for this activity.
- This board will be linked after class for all students to examine and learn about the plethora of language topics investigated in this lesson!
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As a final activity to monitor student mastery of dialect in written expression and practice writing in the narrative form, students will have the opportunity to write a 1-2 page narrative essay using narrative elements. To maximize the alignment of this activity to the Common Core Standards and practice both language skills and writing skills simultaneously, students should be especially sure to
- choose a point of view and stick to it
- address a conflict that can be addressed completely in 1-2 pages with adequate plot progression
- write with a specific tone that adds value to the dialect chosen
- utilize precise and descriptive language to not only demonstrate the dialect, but also add to the depth and richness of the narrative
- incorporate a conclusion that reflects on or resolves the narrative.
To help students better understand narrative elements that should be represented in their essays, students will individually view the Narrative Elements Slideshare below to review these previously-learned concepts.
After viewing the slideshow, students should use the North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns website to choose a dialect from the United States with which to write their narrative essay. Before beginning to write, students should first briefly outline the narrative's sequence, character information, and point of view to help them organize their narratives. This step will ensure students meet the narrative requirements. In the past I have not required students to outline their narratives, but I have found in prior years that without planning, students tend to launch into the "fun" part of the dialect-writing instead of first ensuring that the story makes sense.
After they outline their narratives, students should be sure to steer clear of employing stereotypes they feel are associated with their chosen dialects. It is likely that students will choose a dialect that is unfamiliar to them, so I will also encourage them to do some outside research on that region to help their stories more regionally accurate.
In the remaining class time, students will be able to begin writing their narratives using grammar and phonetics that match the dialect and region selected. These will be shared next week after I evaluate them for appropriateness.
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Next week, students that wish to do so will share their narratives with their classmates. I have learned in the past that it's a potentially dangerous situation to let them read them aloud before doing so in case they violate the rules on avoiding stereotypes.


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I just finished one of the best skirmish battles of mine in a while. It was on the map Bloat and was a 2v3 with me and a NullBot (Insane) ally against SemperFi JS/NullBot/Nexus (all on hard difficulty) in clockwise order. (high power levels/no bases/no scavengers/shared research teams). It took me three tries to beat this setup, but overall was very fun. Try it and post how you do or what you did to beat this.
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A chronological, sequential narrative of the salient points in the IAF's existence, from it's pre-conception right up to the early part of the 21st century. It is written with a minimum of technical or political detail or professional jargon, and in an 'easy to read' format which should make it interesting reading for all levels of aviation and military enthusiasts!
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Mental Health ServicesMental Health services are designed to provide strong community-based partnerships with individuals and families who are dealing with serious mental illness, including those who have co-occurring (mental health and substances abuse) disorders. Recovery-oriented services include assistance with establishing stable housing, access to physical health care, medications management, trauma-informed counseling and peer supports. Behavioral Health assists with management of mental health crises for all members of the community and provides for inpatient or temporary residential care as appropriate.


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A massive unethical medical intervention is unfolding in Kwazulu-Natal (KZN). It could harm many men. At the root of it is greed and also cowardice. We tell the story of the Tara KLamp in four parts. Beyond the details it is ultimately a simple story. The Kwazulu-Natal government is using an unsafe circumcision device that will injure thousands of men. The device has been sold to the state by unscrupulous business people with shady pasts. At the end of our story one question will remain unanswered, what motivated the KZN government to do this?
The Civil Society Conference held on 27-28 October 2010 was a historic turning point in the history of South Africa. Over 300 delegates from 56 mass-based civil society organisations, with a combined membership of millions of South Africans, came together to rebuild a strong, mass democratic movement which will work with the people and the government to tackle the massive social problems with which we are confronted.
As constitutional lawyers, legal academics, human rights and social justice activists who have worked with Janet Love while she has been the National Director of the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), we are surprised and dismayed by Premier Helen Zille's implication that she will not act independently of narrow party politics in her capacity as a human rights commissioner. Under the leadership of Janet Love, the LRC has fought fearlessly for the rights of the poor and powerless, without favour to the ANC or any other political party.
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) held its 5th National Congress on 21 and 22 October at the Birchwood Conference Center in Johannesburg. Voting delegates from TAC branches elected TAC's next National Executive Committee and made resolutions on TAC's strategic focus moving forward. On the eve of the Congress, TAC held an event to celebrate the struggles and battles that have been won over the past decade. As part of the celebration, TAC launched its soon to be published book: 'Fighting for our lives: The history of the Treatment Action Campaign 1998 – 2010'. We also aired a 20 minute sneak preview of a film of the history of TAC that is under production by Community Media Trust.
COSATU Khayelitsha, The Treatment Action Campaign, the Social Justice Coalition and Equal Education have for years worked seriously in Khayelitsha and elsewhere. We have never advocated stone-throwing or promoted violence. Our members work patiently, educate themselves and build local leadership to change the system of inequality. We ask all progressive people in churches, clinics, schools, universities, homes, and local organisations (in Khayelitsha and elsewhere) to distance themselves from mindless violence and calls for chaos that harm the poor and working class and their organisations.
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Western Cape Premier Helen Zille says a Human Rights Commission investigation into violence at Hout Bay's Hangberg settlement, and its adverse ruling in the "toilets without walls" saga, are evidence the body is being used as a "political hit squad" against her, just as Ebrahim Rasool's illegal Erasmus commission of inquiry was.
It is a serious allegation against a crucial democratic institution.
Liu Xiabo is Chinese human rights campaigner, a poet and a literary critic. He is one of the authors of Charter 08, a petition calling for freedom, equality, democracy and constitutional rule in China, including a new constitution, an independent judiciary, the election of public officials and a guarantee of human rights. He is currently serving an 11 year prison term for "inciting subversion of state power" because of his role in Charter 08 and for other documents he has written in the campaign for human rights in China.The award of the Nobel Prize for Peace for 2010 to Liu Xiabo is a small but important step in the struggle for human rights in China.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 (New York City, USA)-- The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) today said the funding shortfall from donors to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria at this week´s Replenishment meeting taking place in New York means lives will be lost in countries like South Africa and has pledged to scale up its Resources for Health campaign. TAC's campaign is calling on all countries – rich and poor – to devote the necessary political attention and financial resources to health, and holds governments accountable for the promises they have made.
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Baseball hands Belmont Abbey (9-1) their first loss of the season as the Tornado defeat the Crusaders 12-6 this Sunday afternoon. Garrett Cook goes 5 of 6 from the plate with 3 Home Runs and 5 RBI on the day. Wes Houser gets the win, while Chad Dixon picks up a save for his 3 innings of action.
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I want you to take your Bible now and open it to the twenty-second chapter of Luke's gospel. This beloved history of the Lord Jesus Christ has occupied our lives for so many years. We are finally coming to the climactic part of this wonderful history. The death of the Lord Jesus Christ, the events leading up to His death, immediately in the days before His crucifixion. And, of course, then His glorious resurrection and subsequent commission, so we are at the climactic point in this great book.
The text before us Luke chapter 22 and verse 21 and following. In fact, you need to take verses 21 through 38 as a unit. It's a long section and we'll divide it into two parts...one this morning, and another next Lord's day morning. But I've entitled this entire section from Luke 22:21 to 38 as "Table Talks on Trouble and Triumph....Table Talks on Trouble and Triumph." And I need to say, by way of introduction, that all the way through salvation history, God triumphs over trouble. Job says, "Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward." Trouble defines a fallen world. Sin entered the world because of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3, and the world was cursed and trouble abounds.
The whole history of redemption is the history of God triumphing over trouble. All the way through salvation history, God gathers His elect people. And in order to achieve that redemptive purpose, He has to overcome constant trouble. The ever-present reality that dominates the world of fallen persons is the reality of sin. Sin is in every Adam and every molecule of this created universe. So that the history of redemption, if God is going to achieve His glorious salvation purposes, is the history of the power of God overcoming the power of sin and the power of evil.
Jesus summed this up in His own words in John 16:33 when He said, "In this world you will have trouble, but I have overcome the world." In fact, God is constantly overcoming the evil that stands in the way of His purposes. He does not need a perfect world to achieve His ends. He will achieve His ends in an absolutely imperfect world. He will achieve His ends though His enemies are in the way, and though His friends are in the way. It is the sins of those who are against God that endeavor to obstruct Him. It is even the sin and failures of those who are for Him but nonetheless weak and vacillating and sinful that attempt even to thwart Him, none succeed.
Saints stand in the way, and sinners stand in the way. But God always achieves His purpose. Salvation history is His story. God will do His will in His way in His time. So that the story of the Scripture and the story of history is God overcoming trouble...triumph over trouble. God is sovereign. God has infinite power, infinite wisdom and works His will through all the evil contingencies that exist in this fallen world. He is the Master of triumphing over trouble.
As our Lord Jesus faces the cross, which is the high point of redemptive history, He must overcome trouble to triumph. And the trouble in this particular text is identified with certain persons...Judas, the Apostles, Satan, Peter and the unbelieving, persecuting world. They are all presented in these verses as obstacles, threats, hindrances to the purposes of God which are overcome. Constant thread then through verses 21 to 38, this entire section, is the thread of triumph over trouble...trouble from the betrayer over which God triumphs...trouble from the selfish Apostles over which the Lord triumphs...trouble from the destroyer, Satan, over which the Lord triumphs...trouble from Peter over which the Lord triumphs...and trouble from the persecuting, hostile world over which the Lord triumphs.
God accomplishes his work again by triumphing over trouble. He has no choice because the whole world is fallen and full of trouble. And that trouble comes, as I said, from saints and sinners. First of all, let's look at a sinner who posed trouble, and then we'll look at saints who posed trouble.
Verses 21 to 23, trouble and triumph with the betrayer...trouble and triumph with the betrayer. Verse 21 to 23, "But behold, the hand of the one betraying Me is with Me on the table. For indeed, the Son of Man is going as it has been determined but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed. And they began to discuss among themselves which one of them it might be who was going to do this thing."
Now remember, it is Thursday night of Passion week. The Lord in the Upper Room with His disciples has just celebrated the Passover, a commemoration of God's deliverance of the children of Israel from Egypt. He has also left the Passover behind so that this is the last official legitimate Passover and He institutes the Lord's Supper, taking the bread and the cup from the Passover and saying,"F"From now on, the bread and the cup will point to the cross where I've given My body and My blood." The disciples have been with Him through the Passover and the institution of the Lord's table.
For hours that evening, in and around the meal, there has been discussion. The Lord has been speaking, addressing issues, giving instruction to His Apostles. It is a prolonged period of time that goes on for hours and hours and hours. This is His last time before the cross with them. The full record of what He said is in John 13 through 17, that whole section. Luke gives us a more abbreviated account, but it is nonetheless a critical account. And Luke seems to point us in the direction of how aware the Lord was of the immediate trouble but how aware He also was of the coming triumph.
First, the trouble with the betrayer. Having eaten the Passover, having instituted the Lord's table, at least in Luke's chronology, Jesus then says a shocking thing. Verse 21, "But behold, the hand of the one betraying Me is with Me on the table." "But behold" indicates an exclamation. Behold is a strong exclamation indicating surprise and shock. Now remember, the disciples knew Jesus was hated by the Jewish leaders. They had known it for a long, long time. That hatred had manifested itself years before in His ministry. They knew that Jesus coming to Jerusalem was very, very dangerous. Before Jesus came to Jerusalem to celebrate this Passover, one of the Apostles said, "Well, let's just go and die with Him, because inevitably that is what will happen when we get into their territory where they have access to Jesus."
They knew the leaders wanted Him dead. They knew that Jesus had protected Himself rom being taken by the leaders during the day by staying in the middle of the temple area, surrounded by masses of people, the leaders being afraid to arrest Him in that environment for fear of a riot. They also knew that at night that Jesus went away clandestinely with them into the Mount of Olives in the darkness of night in the density of that wooded area with all of its olive trees to hide Himself as much as rest from the Jewish leaders.
They knew also that they were meeting in a room which none of them knew about until they arrived, in a home of a person who was unidentified, that Peter and John had been led there first by an unidentified man carrying a pitcher of water. It was all secret. It was all clandestine. It was after dark so that no one would know where He was. They were very aware of the danger of Jesus being arrested in that situation.
They also know full well that He has confronted the leaders of Israel, that He has indicted the leaders of Israel that just prior to this on Wednesday He had told them their system was apostate. He had blistered them in the diatribe against them recorded in Matthew chapter 23, in which He repeatedly pronounces damnation upon them as spiritual hypocrites responsible for the worst of things that were happening to the purposes of God. He had set Himself finally against them by pronouncing doom on their whole system, saying that the entire temple was going to be torn down.
So they knew Jesus was in a very dangerous place. Safety was critical. Thus the "But behold," because here comes shocking news. When you think you're safe, when you think you're in the protective place, when you think you're only surrounded by your loyal loving friends, here comes the shock, "The hand of the one betraying Me is with Mine on the table." There are only thirteen people there. Eleven faithful Apostles, Judas and Jesus. The one betraying, present participle. The one in the process of betraying. He had already negotiated the deal that he would deliver Jesus at the appropriate time when he could pull it off for 30 pieces of silver...the price of a slave. It was in process.
Satan had already put it in his heart to do it. He was only looking for the most ready moment. He was trapped, however, was the betrayer, because now he is there, he can't leave, he didn't know where the Passover was going to be so he couldn't tell the authorities so they could come and arrest Jesus. He is caught for the moment there. And Jesus reveals that He knows the betrayer and that his hand is on the table.
On the table? Shocking in itself because when you ate with someone, that was the symbol of friendship. That was the place of security and safety and protection and peace and friendship and loyalty. In that culture it was unthinkable that you would be betrayed by someone who ate bread with you. But that was what Psalm 41:9 prophesied, that one who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me. That is the most heinous kind of betrayal, the betrayal of one who is in the place of the loyal friend.
As I said, in Luke's chronology, they have begun the Passover. The Lord has instituted the Lord's table, the Lord's Supper, and so Judas has been there for all of that. He has been there for the celebration of the Passover, as they memorialized again the redemption of God in Egypt. He has been there for the hearing of the fact that Jesus will go to the cross and from now on the body and blood of Christ given on the cross will be the new symbol of redemption, the real redemption that will be marked out by the bread and the cup in this special service. Judas has been there through all of that. His hypocrisy is so deep-seeded, so hard-hearted, he is unmoved by any of this or any other conversation going on around the table. Satan has put it into his heart to do what he is going to do. He has locked him up permanently.
And so, when Jesus says, "Behold the hand of the one betraying Me is with Me on the table," it doesn't move Judas at all. It doesn't frighten him at all. It doesn't melt him at all. It does have an effect on the others, but not on Judas. He is fixed in his purposes. The eleven...shocked...too shocked to be outraged and are not at all suspicious of Judas. He is the quintessential, archetypal model hypocrite. Here's the trouble, a betraying Apostle secretly striking a deal to have Jesus arrested and murdered.
For many unbelieving critics, Judas brought down Jesus. For many pseudo-theologians and New Testament students, Judas brings an end to Jesus' noble effort at Jewish renewal. Judas is the anti-hero who brings Jesus to His death. And for the critics, the resurrection is just a fiction of apostolic imagination, not to be believed. Judas' trouble really was trouble and spelled the end. Jesus never planned on it. Some even said He never expected it. But that couldn't be more wrong because no longer do you see the trouble then you see how Jesus viewed the triumph over the trouble, verse 22. "For indeed...for indeed," there's no hesitation there, there's no equivocation there, there's no questioning there, there's no doubt there, "For indeed, absolutely, it is so..." here is the more startling reality..."the Son of Man is going," you can add "to death," "Is going to death as it has been determined."
By Judas? By the Jewish leaders? By the Romans? By Herod? By Pilate? Who determined this? Acts 2:23, "This man, Jesus, delivered up by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God you nailed to a cross." It is predetermined, not by Judas, not by the Jewish leaders, not by any humans, or collection of humans, not even by Satan, but by God. This is really a stunning revelation.
The Son of Man, by the way, is a Messianic title taken from Daniel 7 which Jesus applies to Himself consistently through His life. And the Messiah, the Son of Man, the one promised in Daniel 7 is no victim of human devices. He is going as it has been determined. By whom? By God. The early preachers of the gospel knew it full well. I read you Acts 2:23, that's what Peter said. Listen to Acts 4:28, and here you have those who are the disciples of our Lord praying to the Lord, "And they lift up their voices to God with one accord," in Acts 4:24, "and say, 'O Lord, it is Thou who didst make the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, who by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father, David, Thy servant did say, why did the Gentiles rage and the peoples devise futile things? The kings of the earth took their stand and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ, for truly in this city they were gathered together against Thy holy servant, Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel...listen to this, verse 28...to do whatever Thy hand and Thy purpose predestined to occur.'"
None of them acted on their own. They all acted within the framework of God's predestined, predetermined plan. He is no victim. Trouble from the betrayer? Absolutely. Triumph over the betrayer? Absolutely. He is going to death as it has been determined. Judas acts like an atheist. He acts like all atheists act, as if there is no God and they are actually operating in some kind of isolation from any sovereign, divine strategy or plan. The atheist is foolish enough to think he's in complete control of his choices, foolish enough to think that he determines not only choices but outcome of choices and effects of choices. The atheist, the practical atheist or the theoretical atheist thinks he acts freely on his own will, thinks he's in charge of his own destiny invictus(?)... "I'm the captain of my soul, I am the master of my fate."
Nothing could be further from the truth. But Judas is acting like an atheist. He thinks he can make his own decision, choose his own path, decide his own outcome and therefore his own destiny. He acts, he thinks in isolation from any greater power. No one acts apart from the sovereign plan of God. Every choice, every act, every decision made by every human in the world including the most evil, heinous behavior against the truth and against the Lord, God overrules and fits into His plan for His own ends and His own glory. There's not one rebellious molecule in the universe that operates independently of His purpose.
Of course the whole Old Testament pointed to the death of Messiah. He is the suffering servant of Isaiah 53. He is the crucified one of Psalm 22. He is the true Passover Lamb pictured by all the other lambs slain through the whole sacrificial system. Matthew 26:54 He says He has to go to the cross that Scripture be fulfilled. This is not some kind of breach, some kind of violation, some kind of invasion into the plan. This is the plan and the plan was that there would be a betrayer and Judas would be that betrayer. The sovereign power of God weaves every good and evil contingency into His plan, even working through Judas' treachery.
This is how it is. No sinner ever operates independently of God. God is sovereign. God takes every act, every choice and every effect made by every sinner and every saint and weaves them perfectly into His sovereign purpose. And when I think about the wisdom and the power of God, that's what I think about. That to me is staggering. A miracle, parting the Red Sea, that's relatively a minor act. All you have to do is reverse the laws of nature for a while, pile up water. Even flooding the whole earth, that's a rather minor act, you just release whatever holds the water in the air and it comes down and you crack the earth and the water in the earth comes up and you have a flood. That's fairly simple on a relative level.
But how in the world can God take every decision, every act with all its implications by every human being on the planet, leaving them a certain amount of limited autonomy to make their own choices for which they are culpable and overrule all of that so that it all comes together perfectly into the tapestry of His own divine purpose? And with all the contingencies incalculable, infinite contingencies, everything ends up exactly the way God designed it to end up before He created anyone. That is a massive, massive mind and inexplicable, incomprehensible power.
So, Judas...trouble. But triumph. Yes, Judas will betray Him. Yes it will lead to His arrest. Yes it will lead to His execution...exactly at the very time God established He should die the next afternoon during the slaying of the Passover lambs so that He would die as the true Passover lamb. All in God's plan.
Atheists are the ultimate fools. That's why the Bible says, "The fool has said in his heart there's no God." Everything fits by God's purpose and power and providence into His plan. And God does all His work through fallen creatures...except that which He does by the holy angels. No one acts independently of God, no one. Everyone fits into the sovereign purpose of God. And yet we might say, "Well wow, that kind of removes responsibility from us, doesn't it? If it's all in the sovereign plan of God?" And that's why Jesus went on to say this in verse 22, end of the verse, "But woe to that man by whom He is betrayed."
Woe? Damnation, cursing, consignment to hell to that man by whom He is betrayed. Divine predestination, divine providence, divine power, divine purpose, divine planning does not void human responsibility. Judas is cursed. Judas is damned. And he fully deserves it. He chose of his own wretched heart to do what he did and he's fully culpable for doing it. This statement is judgmental, no question, it is vindictive, no question, but it is also suggestive of grief because God finds no pleasure in the death of the wicked.
No, he is not exonerated. He is fully culpable, and fully guilty. This is the ultimate paradox, is it not? The paradox between divine sovereignty and human responsibility. This is an apparent paradox, not a true paradox, but an apparent paradox which faith accepts while reason rejects. Faith accepts because faith acknowledges that we don't have all the information but we trust God. Faith accepts this. Reason rejects it and that's because reason is finite.
Is it reasonable to say he is responsible and yet God predetermines that? To Him it is, to God it is who has infinite mental capacity. But to us with our finite mind, we accept it by faith though we reject it by reason.
And so our Lord identifies the betrayer, the trouble from the betrayer is imminent. And then immediately affirms that this is all in the predetermined plan of God and so again as always, always, always, God triumphs over the worst trouble. While Jesus is speaking about Judas, by the way, Judas is basically unmoved...unmoved.
Listen to Matthew's account of this moment. Matthew 26:20, "And as they were eating, He said...verse 21...Truly I say to you, one of you will betray Me. And being deeply grieved, they each one began to say to Him, 'Surely not I, Lord.' And He answered and said, 'He who dipped his hand with Me in the bowl is the one who will betray Me. The Son of Man is to go just as it is written of Him as it's been determined and prophesied but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed, it would have been good for that man if he had not been born.'" Better to never exist than to exist forever damned. And Judas...writes Matthew...who was betraying Him answered and said, 'Surely it is not I, Rabbi.' He said to him,'You said it yourself.'"
Nobody else knew who the betrayer was. They thought it might be them. Jesus knew who it was. Judas was so confident that Jesus didn't know that he was an emboldened hypocrite. He could have sat there and said nothing, so as not to call attention to himself. He was so confident that Jesus couldn't know that he said, "It's not I, is it, Rabbi?"
He is spurred then to a bolder hypocrisy. Jesus said of him, "He is a devil." And that's how it is. The sinner who acts like an atheist, theoretical atheist or practical atheist, who thinks he makes all his own choices and determines his own direction and his own destiny in the outcome of his own life is a fool. It all fits into God's purposes and apart from Jesus Christ, in the end you will be a betrayer of the truth and of Christ and end up in the same judgment with Judas. Judas is unmoved, that's how deep his hypocrisy went.
But the others are not so unmoved. Verse 23, "And they began to discuss among themselves which one of them it might be who was going to do this thing." We just read in Matthew, "Is it I?" They said, "Is it I? And this discussion is launched among them who it might be who was going to do this thing." The buzz, they began to look at themselves.
There's some honesty in that. They knew they were weak. They knew they were failing. They knew they were vacillating. They knew that they were poor students. They knew that they had struggled with doubts. They knew that their hearts were sinful, even though they belonged to the Lord and had been forgiven and were His true followers. They knew their weaknesses. They knew they were capable of anything. And it was only a matter of hours from here that they all forsook Him and fled and that Peter openly on three occasions denied Him. They knew they were capable of that. They knew how weak they were. And in a display of some level of initial honesty, they're grappling with the fact that their own doubting, struggling, vacillating hearts could be capable of that.
In John, I want you to look at chapter 18, we get a little more detail into this discussion. In verse 21, when Jesus said, "Truly, truly I say to you, one of you will betray Me. The disciples began looking at one another at a loss to know which one He was speaking about." And then there was reclining on Jesus' chest, which is not literally that, but they were with their chests toward the table and their feet away on those kind of couches where they reclined, and the one nearest to Jesus is the one referred to here. This is John who had never uses his name in his gospel but always another way to describe himself, here it is, "One of His disciples whom Jesus loved." Which seemed to him a lot more important than his name.
"Simon Peter therefore gestured to him...to John...and said to him, 'Tell it is who it is of whom He's speaking.' He leaning back thus toward Jesus said to Him, 'Lord, who is it?'" They had no clue Judas was so adept at hypocrisy. "Jesus therefore answered, 'That is the one for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him.' So when He had dipped the morsel, He took it and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot."
So at least John knew. "And after the morsel...verse 27...Satan entered into him." Satan had put it in his heart to betray Jesus earlier, and now he enters into him to pull it off. "Jesus therefore said to him, 'What you do, do quickly.'" Verse 28, "No one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him." Nobody could figure it out. They completely trusted the integrity of Judas' profession of being a true follower of Christ.
Some were supposing because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, "Buy the things we have need of for the feast." Go get some more food. "Or else that he should give something to the poor. And so, after receiving the morsel, he went out immediately and it was night." What a comment that was. It was really night. It was night outside and it was night inside. Satan took up a place in his heart, led him to the betrayal and led him to hang himself inadequately so that he fell and his body was burst on the rocks below and he was catapulted into everlasting torment, always and eternally, to remember that he had betrayed the Son of God. Indeed it was night.
Well the eleven are left wondering. They don't suspect Judas, even though Judas is gone. Jesus dispatches him, he goes, and as we will see, sets up the betrayal in the Garden on the Mount of Olives, leading to the trial, execution and death of Christ. Meantime they're still struggling with, "Is it I? Is it I?"
But this discussion starts to go the wrong direction. And we move quickly from trouble and triumph by an enemy, Judas, to trouble and triumph regarding friends, the Apostles. Point two, trouble and triumph with the Apostles. God must do His work through His enemies as well as through His friends, sinners and saints. Now you would think that the Apostles would have said, "Lord, You're going to be betrayed, tell us more, tell us more. What can we do to help You? What can we do to protect You? What can we do, Lord? Please, Lord, we want to sympathize with...we want to show compassion, help us know what to do." They don't. They don't. They're just trying to deal with the incredulity of this whole concept. They're just trying to sort out who would do this. And they're caught up in this discussion. And you can understand the discussion would go like this, "Well you know what? He might do it. I always had suspicions about so-and-so over there. Thaddaeus or Philip or Andrew. I would never do it. I would never do that. There would never be a time I would do that." Well there's for sure one who would say that and he does say that and that is Peter. So the discussion begins to deteriorate into this dialogue about who is capable of doing this. And in the meanwhile, Jesus suffers alone without sympathy, without consideration. And as they talk about who might betray Jesus, they make a transition to a very familiar subject, they start talking about themselves and their relative evil capabilities. And that leads them to a discussion about themselves and their relative righteous perspectives.
So, they start out wondering who of them would be so sinful to do this. And eventually in their own self-defense, they start thinking about the fact, "Well I wouldn't do that. He might. She might. But I'm too devoted to do that." And the discussion then goes to which of them is the greatest.
Verse 24, "There arose also a dispute among them as to which one of them was regarded to be the greatest." This runs down to verse 30. This is the only account of this. Only Luke tells us this. How easily they are distracted. How easily they turn away from the Lord who is about to be betrayed to themselves. How easily they lose sight of what He will suffer and start to think about what they deserve. They have already basically abandoned the idea that Jesus is about to be betrayed, which means arrested and led to death. And instead of being captivated by the Savior's plight, they want to argue about which of them is going to be the greatest when He sets up His Kingdom. Is not this the most insensitive and oblivious self-centered group ever? This is embarrassing.
Jesus will be betrayed by one of them. They have no sympathy for Him. And their conversation eventually becomes an explosion of ambition and pride. And you would wonder whether the Passover meal with all of its directed worship toward God and the Lord's table with all of its directed attention toward Christ as the sacrifice meant nothing to them. All they can think about is themselves. Same old, same old. We saw it in Matthew 18, Matthew 20, Mark 9, Mark 10. This is the old argument that they always get into. There was a dispute. That word is philoneikia...philo...phileo... love, love of arguing, love of strife. That's what it was. This...they just...they just love to get into arguments about their relative greatness. Which of them is the greatest? You can see it in Luke 9 also, 9:46 to 48.
Selfishly they fall back to their old typical sinful pattern and at this point you say, "This is some serious trouble, folks, this is serious trouble." Look, Jesus is going to go to the cross. His life is over. It's going to...He's going to be raised from the dead, going to go back to heaven and the whole future of the redemptive plan of God is in the hands of these eleven guys. This is not good. These are not world changers. Their devotion to Christ is questionable, it's suspect. This is big trouble. This is where you expect the Lord to sort of say, "I'm getting a new group in the next few hours." This is really embarrassing, humiliating stuff.
They're still anticipating the Kingdom. Their eschatology was correct. They are still expecting an earthly Kingdom in which the Messiah reigns in Israel, in Jerusalem, over that nation and over the world in which God blesses Israel with all the promises given to Abraham and David and New Covenant salvation promised to Ezekiel in Jeremiah. Their eschatology is right. They expect the Kingdom. And they know that in the Kingdom there will be honor and there will be blessing. Their eschatology is correct. They're having a hard time understanding it. Before there can be a Kingdom, there has to be the suffering and the dying. And that the Kingdom is a long time away, as our Lord told them, you remember in chapter 21. This is very troubling selfishness. It's sound eschatology but it's very troubling selfishness.
How can such a shallow self-centered group with a history of weakness and vacillation and failure, how can they possibly be used to change the world? And what is our Lord going to say in response? His response is amazing. Verse 25, "And He said to them," that phrase Luke repeats seven times in the remaining verses in this section down to verse 38. Jesus does a lot of teaching. "And He said...And He said...And He said...And He said." Important time of instruction. There's a lot more than just this, this is Luke looking at some of it. John gives us the full instruction from 13 to 17 in his gospel. "But He said to them," In fact, Matthew and Mark record, "He said to them, 'You know that...'" And then went on to say, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them and those who have authority over them are called benefactors, but not so with you. But let him who is the greatest among you become as the youngest and the leader as the servant. For who is greater? The one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am among you is the one who serves.'"
His answer is so gracious, so kind, so gentle. John 13 begins...chapter 13 verse 1...with this, "Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them heis telos," He loved them to the max. He loved these men to the maximum capacity that He had to love. He loved them to the infinite level of divine capacity. He really loves His own even though they are so troubling to Him. He loves His own and love having loved them to the max shows up in His answer. He could have rebuked them again, He could have blasted them. He could have replaced them. They were His. He loves them. And so He responds in three magnificent ways. First He says, "You need to change the way you think. You need to change the way you think."
The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them. Those who have authority over them are called benefactors. Not so with you. You can't think like the world thinks. The world operates on autocratic power." That's how the world operates. It operates by dominance, by dictatorship, authoritarianism, despotic rulers lord it over people by threat and force...katakurieuo...lord it over them, a compound of lording. Very strong, tyrannical. That's the world's way. You have a pecking order, you have a hierarchy, you have somebody at the top who dominates everybody. They knew this. This is how life was in the ancient world. In fact, there were no democracies anywhere in sight at that time in human history. This is the world's way. Somebody is the greatest. Somebody is on top. Somebody has the authority. Somebody dominates. The kings of the Gentiles, the nations, that's their approach.
And then He adds, "And those who have authority over them are called benefactors...are called probably a middle voice...call themselves benefactors." These are the people...the word"benefactor," energeti(?), energizers. These are the ones who think all the influence lies with them. All the power lies with them. They're responsible for being the source of everything that happens. It all flows out of them. They're the energizers. They have authority, meaning total absolute authority.
So in the world, you have dictators and kings and rulers and Caesars and monarchs and Pharaohs and all the rest. They dominate by power and force and threat and rule by fear. And they call themselves the influencers, the energizers, the benefactors, that is to say they're the source of all the good that comes. This is how the world operates with this kind of hierarchical structure.
Verse 26, "Not so with you." This isn't how the Kingdom works. By the way, benefactors you see, a capital B, and some quote marks, because it was an actual title used by Ptolemy I, Ptolemy II, used by Nero, used by Caesar Augustus, so it was an actual title that they did apply to themselves. But it's not this way with you. In the Kingdom of Christ, leaders don't dominate by force and fear. They don't see themselves as the source, the Benefactor, the source of all good and influence. In this Kingdom, the one who is the greatest among you must become like the younger or the youngest. You must become like the youngest.
The youngest person in that culture was the least honored, age and honor went together. If you were the youngest, you were the least honored. In My Kingdom, the greatest is the one who sees himself as the least honored. This is reminiscent of Matthew 20:26 and 27, "Whoever will be great, let him be your servant. Whoever will be chief, let him be your slave." Same thing. In My Kingdom it's about slavery and service, it's about humility. It's not about power. Just as Matthew 20:28, "The Son of Man didn't come to be served, but to serve and give His life a ransom for many." You just need to think differently.
Then He says this, "For who is greater? The one who reclines at the table or the one who serves?" Well that's easy to answer. Whoever reclines at the table is the guest, or the host. And the one who serves is the waiter who is a slave. Obviously the one who sits and eats at the table is greater than the slave who serves him. And that's the answer. "Is it not the one who reclines at the table?" Of course. And then the Lord turns that around and says,"B"But I am among you as the one who serves."
So, first He gives them a new principle they need to understand that governs life in the Kingdom. If you want to be the greatest, seek to be the lowest. And then He gives them an example. "I am among you as one who serves." And then what was He talking about at that point? What did He mean by that? To what was He referring? John tells us. God to John 13. John 13, verse 3, "Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into His hand that He was from God and going back to God rose from supper." He gets up from the table. Laid aside His garment. Taking a towel, girded Himself about, poured water into the basin...they must have been watching and thinking what is He doing? And began to wash the disciples feet and to wipe them with a towel with which He was girded.
When Luke says Jesus said I am among you as one who serves, they knew what He was talking about. This is what He did to demonstrate it. I washed your filthy feet. There was usually a slave in a place like this because you didn't go to the table with filthy feet, especially when you feet were elevated. They were always washed by the lowest slave. That was the lowest slave job there was. But there was apparently no slave to do it. The disciples who were all concerned about which of them was perceived as the greatest would not stoop to do it. So Jesus seals the point of humility by doing it Himself. "I am among you as one who serves."
Peter can't handle it. He comes to Simon Peter. He said, "Lord, You wash my feet? This is ridiculous. Jesus answered and said to him, 'What I do you do not realize now but you shall understand hereafter.'" He is simply saying, you've got to understand My humiliation. This is simply a symbol of My humiliation, you haven't seen the full humiliation yet. Wait until I get to the cross. Peter said to Him in his normal brash way, "Never shall You wash my feet." He doesn't mind commanding the Lord of glory. "Jesus answered, 'And if I don't wash you, you have no part with Me.'" Simon Peter reverses and says, "Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head." Give me the full deal.
And then in verse 12, "When He had washed their feet and taken His garments, reclined at the table again, He said to them, 'Do you know what I've done to you? You call Me teacher and Lord and you're right, for so I am. I am the honored guest. If I then, the Lord and the teacher, the Master and the teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet, for I gave you an example that you should do as I did to you because truly, truly a slave is not greater than his master, neither is the one who is sent greater than the one who sent Him. If you know these things, you're blessed if you do them.'"
So Jesus says, "Look, I'm going to triumph over this trouble. I'm going to give you a principle to live by. It's a different principle than the way the world operates. I'm going to give you an example so that it's unmistakable what I'm talking about. Loving humble service to one another in which each considers himself lower than the other."
And thirdly, I'm going to give you a promise...a promise. Verse 28, I love this. Just quickly, "And you are those who have stood by Me in My trials." What wonderful affirmation, isn't it? Isn't that gracious? Instead of saying, "You blockheads, you never ever rise to the occasion." You are those who have stood by Me at My trial. You're still here. You're still here. John 6, right? "Many of His disciples walked no more with Him." Not these, they're still here. They're still there. You...you endured. You're true. You're Mine. You've been transformed. You are those who have stood by Me in My trials.
It's as if to say, this is what I've got, you're Mine. And it's always going to be this way. My work is always going to be done in spite of the work of My enemies, and even in spite of the weakness of My friends. But you're Mine. In spite of their troubling, discouraging pride, indifference, ambition...in spite of their relentless tendency to fail to live up to every opportunity, the Lord says you are Mine...you've remained and endured. So...listen to this...just...verse 29...as My Father has granted Me a Kingdom, I grant you that you may eat and drink at My table in My Kingdom and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel."
Wow...what does that say? That says this, that in the end when all of redemptive history is done, these eleven men, Judas absent, Matthias added in Acts 1, will become the Twelve who will rule in the Kingdom over the twelve tribes of Israel because they are worthy to be honored.
What does that mean? That whatever appears to be weakness at this point, whatever appears to be vacillation, pride, selfish ambition and even a few hours after this, the scattering of the Apostles and the denial of Peter, they will al recover, they will all be restored. They will be empowered by the Spirit. They will carry the gospel and they will start the flow that will take it to the ends of the world. And not until it is preached to the ends of the earth will Christ come to set up His Kingdom. But when He does, they will be appropriately honored. We know their history. We know they for the most part died as martyrs, faithful to the very end. Instead of berating them, He gives them a principle to live by in the Kingdom, it's humility. He gives them a model to follow, to show what humble loving servants looks like. And then He promises them a glorious reward in the future. They looked doomed to fail. They looked weak. They looked ignorant. That's not how it would end up. You stood with Me in My trials. You're the ones who have been called and saved and given an enduring faith. You are My true disciples.
It's a monumental difference between you and your weakness and Judas and his betrayal. Grace is at work in you. This is the reverse of the Judas issue. Judas is responsible and damned for it. Though God planned his role. The Apostles are responsible and rewarded for it. Though God planned their role as well.
In spite of their weaknesses, as I tried to point out in my book, Twelve Ordinary Men, God achieves His ends. "My Father has granted Me a Kingdom." The messianic Kingdom is coming, it is coming. It has not been canceled, though it is postponed. God has granted, that's diatheke, covenant language. God has covenant with Me a Kingdom and I covenant with you, I grant you, same term, I covenant with you that when that Kingdom comes, you will eat and drink at My table in My Kingdom. You'll be the guest of honor in that Kingdom. The highest place of honored noble guests at the table of the host, you'll be there with Me in that Kingdom. Which is to say, you will do what I commission you to do. You will accomplish what I send you to do. God's power in you by the Spirit will triumph over all your human weakness. And beyond that, each of you will sit in a position of power, ruling over one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Which means in the future Kingdom, all the tribes of Israel will be there. And each of them will be ruled by one who stands as the representative of Christ to whom Christ mediates His rule to that tribe.
Same promise was given to the Apostles in Matthew 19:27 through 30. That in the regeneration you will sit on twelve thrones.
So Christ faces the cross and the obstruction of Judas from the purpose...in the midst of the purposes of God are overcome because it's all a part of the plan. The obstruction posed not by the enemy but by the friends and their weakness is overcome and it's all a part of the plan. God plans to use the weak and the vacillating, the not many, the not mighty, the not noble, the nobodies and the nothings so that He can get all the glory. So Christ faces the cross but triumph over trouble is on His mind. That's not all. Yet to come trouble from Satan, trouble from Peter, and trouble from the unbelieving world over which God will also triumph. Let's pray.
This is such a far-reaching and glorious reality, Lord, and it comes all the way down to our lives. Nothing that happens in our lives is random either. You cause all things to work together for good to those that love You and are called according to Your purpose. Father, You're working everything to Your end, to Your plan, achieving Your purpose. And yet we are responsible and accountable to You for what we do. We thank You, Lord, that You are sovereign but that You have chosen to use the weak in order that all glory might go to You. We can't even understand how we can be used. We thank You that You so use us. And we thank You and we rejoice that Your plan is on schedule perfectly. Be exalted, be honored, Lord. Lift up the Lord Jesus Christ and use us in whatever way we can be used, to Your glory. Amen.
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She doesn't usually plan ahead when it comes to her crafting. Often, she decides what to make once she's gotten her inventory home and spread out on the kitchen table. Besides, the final product isn't what's important, rather the journey to get there. When she looks at the birdhouse made from sticks and seashells, she sees a day at the beach well spent with a friend and a picnic lunch. As she uses the pot holder made from woven grasses, she smiles at the memory of almost losing her sandal in the pond as she plucked the long blades free.
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(AP) IndyCar has changed the distances of four races in an effort to discourage fuel-mileage racing.
The announcement made Monday changes the lengths of races at St. Petersburg, Long Beach, Milwaukee and Mid-Ohio.
St. Pete will increase by 10 laps to 110, or 198 total miles. Long Beach is decreasing by five laps to 80, for 157.4 miles. Milwaukee is adding 25 laps to 250, for 250 miles, and Mid-Ohio is increasing five laps to 90 for 203 miles.
IndyCar Series race director Beaux Barfield believes the changes will eliminate the fuel-saving strategy that often begins at the start of the race, and teams will now be able to race hard for the entire distance.


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